Perceptions of Modernity in Early Modern Historical Thinking1

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5772049
AutoresJ G A Pocock (Johns Hopkins University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen17
Número1
Páginas79-92
Fecha de publicación2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIntellectual History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-6977 • E-ISSN: 1749-6985
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17496970601140246
OpenAlexW2141251895
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1This paper was originally delivered as a keynote lecture at the conference of the International Society for Intellectual History, Sydney, July 2002. 2Clement of Alexandria, a writer of the late second century, best known for his Stromata. See the English translation of Jean Le Clerc, The Lives of the Primitive Fathers (London, 1701), 20-2. 3For 'modern' history beginning with the rise of ecclesiastical authority, see Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, edited by David Womersley, 3 vols. (London: Allen Lane, 1994), vol. 1, 490, 585, 750-2. Hereafter Decline and Fall. 4'The mutual obligations of the popes and the Carlovingian family form the important link of ancient and modern, of civil and ecclestiastical, history'. Decline and Fall, vol. 3, 109. 5 Decline and Fall, vol. 3, 1068. 6J. G. A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, vol. 2, Narratives of Civil Government (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). 7For references see Barbarism and Religion, vol. 2, 134, 141-2. 8In his Discours Préliminaire à l'Encyclopédie (1751). For an analysis see J. G. A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, vol. 1: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), ch. 8, esp. 186-8, 191-3; for Enlightened as opposed to humanist scholarship and literature see 197-201. 9Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978) vol. 1, 4; after introductory material, the opening statement of the whole work. 10See the preface or proemio to his Discourses on Livy, in any edition. I omit to consider those interpreters who have argued that Machiavelli in this and other passages meant something other than what he wrote. 11J. G. A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, vol. 3:The First Decline and Fall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), ch. 10. 12James F. Marino, 'Empire and Commerce: a history of the modern states system', unpublished PhD dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 1998. 13See the Introduction to his Siècle de Louis XIV: Oeuvres Historiques de Voltaire, edited by René Pomeau (Paris: Gallimard, 1962), 617-1028; and Barbarism and Religion, vol. 2, 86, 91. 14For the English species of this quarrel, see Joseph M. Levine, The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991), and idem, Between the Ancients and the Moderns: Baroque Culture in Restoration England (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999). 15 Barbarism and Religion, vol. 2, 131. 16J. G. A. Pocock, 'Clergy and Commerce: the Conservative Enlightenment in England', in L'Èta dei Lumi: studi storici sul settecento europeo in onore di Franco Venturi, edited by R. Ajello et al., 2 vols. (Naples: Jovene, 1985) vol. 1, 523-62. 17 Leviathan, ch. 46. 18J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975), chs.12-15; idem, Virtue, Commerce and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, chiefly in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), chs. 2, 5, 6; idem, 'The significance of 1688: some reflections on whig history', in The Revolutions of 1688: The Andrew Browning Lectures, 1988, edited by Robert Beddard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), 271-92; idem, 'Standing army and public credit: the institutions of Leviathan', in The World of William and Mary: Anglo-Dutch Perspectives on the Revolution of 1688-89, edited by Dale Hoak and Mordechai Feingold (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996), 87-103. 19Benjamin Constant, Political Writings, edited by Biancamaria Fontana, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 'On the liberty of the ancients compared with that of the moderns', 303-7. 20 The Machiavellian Moment, 427-36, 481-2. 21Adam Ferguson, The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic, New edition [...] revised and corrected, 5 vols. (Edinburgh, 1799), vol. 5, 418n. 22Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, edited by J. G. A. Pocock (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1987), 67-70. 23 Idem, Letters on a Regicide Peace (London, 1796-7), passim. 24 Barbarism and Religion, vol. 1, 183-201. 25For this see David Womersley, Gibbon and the 'Watchmen of the Holy City': the Historian and his Reputation, 1776-1815 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), chs. 5, 6, 9

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